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Actually all that information is already stated in his post, but I would like to know if he is running BT3b or BT2? I personally have a bcm4318 my self and have successfully been able to use it out of the box in BT3.

Your problem here doesn't seem to be the commands that you use to connect to your router as you are given an IP-address and are able to ping the router itself. Therefore I would ask you to first of all check your settings on your router, as the problem seems to be to ping and connect to the outer world.

Have you been able to get an internet connection up and working using the wireless before, or only using the ethernet cable?

I stuck a wusb54gc dongle on the top of my laptop lid; and when I open my
laptop the lid/screen the dongle is 90 degrees to earth. The dongle was attached
using a 9 inch usb extention cable.

To make a long story short, I upgraded my driver for the wusb54gc and suddenly
I lost all wireless... I was stumped... I reinstalled three different drivers over and
over until I discovered that the USB cable wasn't fully attached to the
wusb54gc dongle.